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XL An Account of the Produce of the Peach Trees in the Gar- 

 den at Worthy Hall, since the Year 1808 inclusive. In 

 a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. Charles Harrison, 

 F.H.S. Gardener to James Stuart Wortley, 

 M. P. F. H. S. 



Read March 7th, J 820. 



Sir, 



I have much pleasure in complying with your request, that 

 I would send you a statement of the number of Peaches and 

 Nectarines produced in the garden at this place, for the last 

 twelve years, to illustrate the Papers already published in 

 the Society's Transactions relative to them.* 



The account of the produce of the first six years is founded 

 on calculations made as correctly as I am able, the crop not 

 having been counted as it was gathered in those years ; the 

 amount during the latter six years is more exact, because 

 the whole was entered in a book, which was signed by the 

 person who received the fruit. You will observe, that in the 

 last two years the number of trees has been reduced, the part 

 of the wall having been appropriated to other purposes. The 

 numbers of the fruit stated, do not include any that were 

 lost by waste or decay, the account being exclusive of all 

 such, which in some seasons have been considerable. Since 

 the crop of this year has been gathered, the trees have, by 

 Mr. Wortley's desire, been reduced to twenty. 



* Vol. II. page 13. Vol. III. page 37. 



